Pingdom Reviews

Pros
This is a great piece of monitoring software that has a well designed interface. This has been our go to tool for monitoring site down issues, and high priority system outages. It is easy to configure all types of standard checks, from the 200 check to string checks and more. You can tell at a glance what is up but more importantly what is NOT up. We use this as a monitoring system for hundreds and hundreds of sites and systems, we also have this feed into other tools such as our ticket system to automatically create and update tickets.

Cons
Performance has started to suffer as the number of monitored items grows. We now monitor more than a thousand unique items and it is started to take a long time to load individual items, not to mention the overview. This is starting to cause some frustration, I am not sure if Pingdom will continue to scale with us, however we would like it to. Sometimes we have false positive alerts, however this is usually due to configuration issue and not a fault of Pingdom.

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Likelihood to recommend: 9/10

Pros
I most likely won't even be able to describe how much I like Pingdom. I've used it for many years. Started with a free version and expanded to paid subscriptions. It's always great to know what's going on with your network, when you're not around. Setting up monitoring alerts for specific services allows to decrease downtime and be on top of outages (means, you're a superhero). I've had situations so many time, when you come in in the morning, and a website has been down for several hours. With Pingdom, that's no longer a case. You get notified immediately!

Cons
Can't think of anything. It's so simple and intuitive, even a caveman can do it. Love the mobile app option

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
Pingdom will help you to monitor your website and keep track of when it goes down. You can set the interval when to check your website. You can see details report of delay from many servers. It will send you mail/SMS when the site goes down so you can take a look at what happens. I love to the page speed tool, which shows how can I improve my page speed and finetune with the server.

Cons
Price is a little expensive for these tools. Sometimes gives a false alert when comparing with other. Sometimes it fails to check downtime, which happens once a week or two.

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Likelihood to recommend: 8/10

Pros
As a web professional who provides managed hosting services for my clients, Pingom's service has been extremely helpful in catching server issues that need my prompt response. Being able to have a notification on my smartphone in those rare cases when a site becomes unresponsive has enabled me to respond quicker and minimize downtime.

Cons
There have been a couple of occasions when I did not receive a downtime notification. I'm not sure if it was an issue with the app or further up in the service's workings. This has not been a consistent issue, and has occurred very few times.

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
I have used this program for years, going back to when I was employed by a web design and hosting company. It's a relatively simple app, to the point that just about anyone can use it. I have used it to gain analytics on website traffic as well as determine the reasons for crashes or point developers and engineers in the right direction.

Cons
I find it difficult to actually find any cons with this product as it does exactly what it says on the tin. The only disadvantage is that the discounted prices only come when you pay upfront rather than monthly.

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Likelihood to recommend: 8/10

Pros
I love being able to see at a quick scan what elements on specific pages can cause for example loading issues. This allows me to see dead links or even things I may need to optimize to decrease page load times.

Cons
I wish it had the ability to tell you in html/css what elements on the page the items came from.

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
Reliable , detection is immediately. Allows to configure the checks according to the request/response needed.

Cons
Root cause reports are sometimes poor and don't provide the needed information. No special improvements in the past 2 years. Recurring alerts don't get automatic detection as known issue and it cause harressing messages until issue resolved.

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Likelihood to recommend: 6/10

Pros
I love the uptime monitoring and the page speed monitoring. I run several websites as a small business with various arms and aims. Being able to see at a glance if any are down, what pages are dragging, and where improvements need to be made is a great help in figuring out where to devote time each day to solving the small issues that can cause big problems down the line.

Cons
I really wish all paid plans offered unlimited websites, and there was a free plan for one website. As it stands, while I'm testing out the free trial period, I just can't see needing to pay the monthly price for an unlimited plan in order to keep an eye on all my websites this way, when as a sole proprietor, my budget is stretched as is. While this is a great tool, it's sadly just not cost effective for most small businesses.

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Likelihood to recommend: 6/10

Pros
We love the fact that we can set up instant email alerts if any of our sites experience downtime. The site speed function is quite useful too when it comes to optimising sites and their load time.

Cons
It's not the cheapest service which could put some people off, but it really is worth the money in our view.

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Pros
It allows you to keep your team in the loop about the more admin-related stuff that would normally be harder to understand.

Cons
It takes a lot of getting used to and is not so simple to set it up in the first place - you got to struggle a little first.

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Likelihood to recommend: 8/10

Pros
A great tool for monitoring up-time on your web based services. It offers a comprehensive alerting platform for those business critical systems you cant do without.

Cons
The free alerting model is now gone and the all alerting services are now subject to cost. I suppose nothing free lasts forever.

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Likelihood to recommend: 8/10

Pros
It is a really feature rich website monitoring tool. It notifies about down times and slow periods by e-mail and sms. So I can make action when necessary immediately. Security and continuous uptime with reasonable speed are both crucial part of any web-based service. This tool helps me monitor any error about speed and availability. It performs a page speed test also and provide real time visitor monitoring. With the help of the Pingdom API, it can be customised and automated.

Cons
Pingdom offers really more than I expected, so I cannot know any problem or negative element about it.

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
Pingdom is the best, quickest, easiest to use and from what I can tell the best designed in it's class.

Cons
My only issue with Pingdom has always been the cost. It was always too excessive for me to use since I monitor hundreds of sites.

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Likelihood to recommend: 5/10

Pros
Pingdom is monitoring my websites, I get alerts whenever anything goes wrong so I can take action before if effects my visitors.

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
The main function of this great tool is to measure the loading speed of a website, but the truth has helped me a lot when it comes to optimizing our website, since it tells me page by page what are the errors that must be corrected to increase the loading speed. The truth is very useful and you can measure the loading speed from different servers in North America, Europe and South America.

Cons
I really like this tool, the only thing I would add is to be able to compare the performance of different websites.

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
Pingdom is one of those applications that you should keep in mind when developing websites. You can get a full report on the errors found on your page and dozens of useful tips to improve the loading speed. What I like the most is that it not only tells you what mistakes you have, but how you can improve them. You can also schedule the analyzes and obtain a report on how your website works during the days. Even in its free version it allows you to do so, with the limitation of only one site per account.

Cons
I can only complain about the way they present errors, a little more order would not be wrong.

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
Has a good set of free tools for analyzing website speed. Pricing is favorable compared to competitors. Has some great features for ecommerce sites.

Cons
Although the pricing is generally affordable, the service is priced in tiers which have a relatively big jump between them. Some competitor pricing models are more granular.

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Pros
I like that pingdom integrates with Slack, We use this plugin to determine whether or not our site goes down and when it goes back up.

Cons
Really can't think of anything negative, however I wish it gave more detailed notifications about what caused the outage in the detailed reports.

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
I've been using buffer to test website load times and the results provided by pingdom is the most accurate ones i've ever come across.

Cons
There should be more test locations to choose from. Currently, there are only 4 test locations and that doesn't really make the tool comprehensive enough.

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
This software saved us many times when we launched our new site.

Cons
A bit complicated to set up but well worth it.

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Likelihood to recommend: 8/10

Pros
The ability to setup alerts and see historical data of the uptime of our websites. It allows us to know when our website is down before our customers yell at us.

Cons
This software does exactly what it needs to do but nothing more. It is a fairly narrow purpose but useful.

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Likelihood to recommend: 8/10

Pros
Track and monitor update for web base applications. Pingdom can alert you moments after your website/software platform becomes unresponsive. The best part is that Pingdom can send you text messages when an outage is detected.

Cons
When our company made some internal changes we set up a new Pingdom account and for some unknown reason the system triggered false positives saying one of our sites was down, when in fact it was up and working normally. The funny thing is that this problem didn't exist on our old Pingdom account

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
The ability to test from multiple locations at short intervals. Very easy to change monitoring and customise alert threshold. Having this has allowed us switch on and off ppc campaigns if the clients website goes down, saving the clients hundreds of pounds.

Cons
Although the free solution gives a good introduction, you really have to purchase the full version to get a true insight into performance.

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Pros
-It allows you to customize alerts. -It also has a mobile app to check tests on the go. -The uptime monitoring service is useful to identify any issues that your website may be facing.

Cons
-You need to understand programming in order to use all the features. -It gets expensive if you have too many websites to monitor.

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Likelihood to recommend: 8/10

Pros
Pingdom is one of the original services (at least that I can remember) for ping uptime testing. Its uptime alerting is reliable and stable.

Cons
Unfortunately the price point just isn't competitive anymore, relative to the features they provide. They only offer 1 minute check intervals (I use a competitor that gets down to 30 second intervals), threshold alerting is only available on higher tier plans, and you can't pay per-check so the moment you cross 10 your plan price nearly triples.

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Likelihood to recommend: 3/10